No Code, No Sleep, No Cake: My Two-Day Reality Check

Over the last two days, I dove deep into the no code rabbit hole, and let me tell you — despite the hype, “no code” is a long way from “no work.”

Sure, the promise sounds seductive: build your dream app, automate your business, launch your startup, all without writing a single line of code. But the reality? It’s more like baking a cake in an Easy Bake Oven. Technically, yes, something edible comes out. But if you’re hoping for a gourmet experience? Forget it.

Debugging is where the dream dies.

I’ve spent hours, days, trying to figure out why something that should work just doesn’t. Staring at flow charts, clicking through endless menus, watching tooltips explain the obvious while hiding the critical. The process is more trial and error than trial and success. And it’s not a playground for amateurs, it’s a battlefield for patient masochists.

I don’t say this to discourage people. I say it to reset expectations. No code tools can empower you, but only if you already understand how things should work under the hood. It’s like giving someone a scalpel and telling them they can perform surgery because there’s a YouTube video for it. No code gives coders leverage. It doesn’t replace them.

For entrepreneurs who genuinely want to change the world?

This isn’t a golden ticket. It’s a gimmick in a shiny box.

We don’t need “less code.”

We need more clarity, more collaboration, and more creators who understand the why before the how.

No code isn’t the revolution.

It’s a stepping stone, and a shaky one at that.

Or maybe the "no code" app is not yet fully baked and we need to wait a few more monts.